A pioneer in niche online coverage, reporting on Texas politics since 1998

Year Founded

pre-2000

Type or Coverage

Politics

State

Texas

City

Austin

Business Type

For-profit

Revenue Sources

Local Ads

Revenue Sources

National Ads

Revenue Sources

Subscriptions

Institutional Support

No Institutional Support

Staff Size (Business)

2-5

Staff Size (Editorial)

2-5

Active Volunteers

None

CMS

Cold Fusion 8

Affiliations

None

Mappin Location

Austin - Texas

Principal Staff

Harvey Kronberg

Principal Staff

John Reynolds

Principal Staff

Kimberly Reeves

Description

Harvey Kronberg and his team at the Quorum Report are true Internet news frontiersmen. Kronberg who has been covering Texas politics since 1989 purchased The Quorum Report then a print-only political newsletter in 1998 and within a year had turned the Report into an all-web news operation. Although he admits that he had to be convinced to go to the web (“Back in ‘98 the only people who had Internet connections were teenagers” he says. “My clientele was going to have to borrow their AOL account from their kid.”) it’s safe to say he’s glad he didn’t go the route of a fax newsletter. Within months after launching online the site was pulling in 3000 hits a day. In 1998.